This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With … public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it … raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of physical capital accumulation. Second, it reduces accidental …

immigration inflows. To illustrate these effects we construct a population accounting model and simulate steady-state outcomes …

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

participation rate effect, but also a growth effect. Life-cycle savings, investment deepening, foreign capital flows, and schooling … have all been greatly affected by the demographic transition. The paper discusses just how much of these positive growth …

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The … fertility which changes the age compositions and could thereby account for savings and growth in Asia. … association between the age composition of a nation's population and its savings rate, observed within 16 Asian countries from …

This paper shows how growth and demography, two important determinants of the savings rate in the life-cycle approach …, explain a large part of the diversity in savings behavior in Asia across eight countries as well as over time. Inflation and …